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EARLY TENNESSEE LAND RECORDS, 1773-1922 Records of the Land Office, State of Tennessee. Records of the Board of Land Commissione State of Tennessee Department of State Tennessee State Library and Archives 403 Seventh Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0312 EARLY TENNESSEE LAND RECORDS, 1773-1922 Records of the Land Office, State of Tennessee. Records of the Board of Land Commissioners RECORD GROUP 50 Processed by: Ann Evans Alley, David R. Sowell Archival Technical Services Location: Eighth Stack, TSLA 1 Date completed: 4 October 2016 1 Certain series of this collection have been previously microfilmed. BACKGROUND It is impossible to overstate the importance of public lands to early Tennessee. Land was without question the most important form of business and entrepreneurial activity in early Tennessee and the chief inducement to immigrate to this country. Tennessee was a public land territory and state, which meant that virtually all of its land passed from various jurisdictions to private owners through means of grants of one sort or another. In the general absence of “hard money” or specie in early Tennessee, land was main type of property, the currency of wealth, and the chief means of making money. Politics and land speculation were closely intertwined, and land issues were a leading concern of early government. The Early Tennessee Land Records, Record Group 50 provides a unique and valuable window into the interactions between settlers, citizens, speculators, and the public land system. MILITARY RESERVATION Lacking funds to pay her officers and men for service in the Continental Line, North Carolina in 1782 passed legislation granting to each soldier then in service who served to the end of the war land in her western district (now the State of Tennessee). Provision was also made for those men who, because of wounds or “bodily infirmities,” were deemed unfit for service. The heirs of a soldier killed in the service of his country were to have the same quantity of land that the soldier would have been entitled to had he served during the war. Determined by rank, the amount of land given ranged from 640 acres for a private to 12,000 acres for a brigadier. General Nathaniel Greene was given a special allotment of 25,000 acres. Three commissioners were appointed to lay off the Military Reservation: Absalom Tatom, Isaac Shelby, and Anthony Bledsoe. They were accompanied by one or more agents to assist them, no more than three surveyors, as well as chain carriers, markers and hunters, who were to supply provisions for the group. A battalion under the command of Major Thomas Evans was sent along for protection. To claim a military grant, proof of service was presented to the Secretary of State of North Carolina. This could be from a muster roll or a certification of service from a commanding officer. (According to the North Carolina Archives, they do not have any of the certifications). However, following the exposure of the Glasgow land frauds the only proof accepted was a muster roll. The Secretary of State of North Carolina issued a surveyor’s warrant to Martin Armstrong (and later to William Christmas), surveyor of the military lands, authorizing him to survey the stated number of acres at a spot designated by the grantee. After the Cession Act in 1789 military grants could be laid on any vacant land, even west of the Tennessee River, if sufficient tillable land could not be found in the Military Reservation. The name of the recipient, the amount of land, and place where the survey was to be made was noted in a book called an entry book. The original copy of Martin Armstrong’s entry book is in the North Carolina Archives. The copy in these records was made by John Overton in preparation of Tennessee’s being able to issue grants. 2 When the survey was made the surveyor returned the surveyor’s warrant (sometimes called warrant of survey) and two copies of the survey with plat to the Secretary of State’s office. The secretary made out the grant, which was then signed by the governor and countersigned by the secretary. One copy of the survey and plat was attached to the grant and returned to the grantee. The warrant and the second copy of the survey were filed in the land office in North Carolina. These documents, including any related documents, can be found on TSLA Microfilm No. 1177. They are arranged by county or district where the land is located. Each of the commissioners who laid off the Military Reservation received 5,000 acres for his service. Those who accompanied the commissioners were also allotted land in the Military Reservation. Surveyors received 250 acres, while the chain carriers, markers, and hunters got 640 acres each. Privates in the guard received 320 acres each, and the officers were paid in land in proportion to their militia pay. The land for the commissioners and those accompanying them was to be entered with the Entry Taker of Davidson County (Samuel Barton) rather than the Secretary of State, as were the military grants. From this point the grant process continued in the same manner as the military grants. PREEMPTION GRANTS Finding that prior to the passage of the act for the benefit of her Continental soldiers, many families had settled within the bounds of the land set aside as the Military Reservation, North Carolina granted a preemption of 640 acres to each family or head of family and to every single man 21 years or over who was settled on the land before June 1, 1780. As the commissioners identified those early Cumberland settlers, they issued a certificate to those entitled to a preemption and entered the names of the person and a description of the land in a book kept for that purpose. The book was returned to the North Carolina General Assembly. By the time the commissioners arrived many of the original settlers had moved on and assigned their right of preemption to another. In many cases the right had been passed through several owners. The original book is in the North Carolina Archives. It has also been published (Irene Griffey, The Preemptors). JOHN ARMSTRONG GRANTS In order to redeem from her citizens specie certificates (i.e. promissory notes) issued during the Revolution for supplies, etc. for her troops (NOT for military service), North Carolina opened a land office in Hillsboro, North Carolina on October 21, 1783. John Armstrong was named Entry Taker. The land was offered at Ten Pounds in specie per hundred acres and included all of present day Tennessee with the exception of the Military District and the land held by the Cherokee Nation in the southeastern corner of the state. Individual tracts were limited to 5,000 acres, but a loophole made it possible to join these into larger tracts. The state was divided into three sections. The Eastern District was composed of land between Greene County and the Cumberland Mountains. The Middle District covered the land between the Cumberland Mountains and the Tennessee River, while the Western District extended from 3 the Tennessee River to the Mississippi River, even though this land was still claimed by the Chickasaw Nation and title would not be cleared until 1819. As North Carolina did not recognize the claim of the Chickasaws, many grants were laid in this area, including those surveyed in 1785 by Henry Rutherford and John Rice’s claim to the land at present day Memphis. A chief surveyor was appointed for each district: Stockley Donelson, son of John Donelson for the Eastern District, William Polk for the Middle District and William T. Lewis for the Western District. In order to obtain a grant, the claimant took to John Armstrong’s office a written description of the land he wished to claim. The entry taker endorsed the entry (sometimes referred to as a “location”) with the name of the claimant, number of acres, and date. They were to be recorded in order received. After three months, if there was no previous claim for the same land, the entry taker delivered to the claimant a numbered copy of the entry, with a warrant authorizing a survey. Once the survey was completed, it was returned to the Secretary of State’s office and the grant process continued. The original grants were sent to the claimants twice a year on April 1st and October 1st. The grant had to be recorded within twelve months in the deed books of the county where the land was located. Not interested in land, many of the citizens sold their specie certificates at a discounted price to speculators who rushed to the land office to claim their bargain land. Many claims were entered for land between the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers only to be lost in 1806 when the United States required Tennessee to relinquish jurisdiction to the area. By 1784 North Carolina was being pressed by the Federal government for payment of her Revolutionary debt. She offered her western lands to the United States in settlement of the debt. In anticipation of the acceptance of the offer, North Carolina closed John Armstrong’s office on May 25, 1784. If accepted, the right to issue warrants and grants from this office would have passed to the United States. The offer was not accepted, but John Armstrong’s office was not reopened Tennessee’s copy of John Armstrong’s Entry Book was made by John Overton in 1804 from the original in the North Carolina Archives. The records from this office generated during the grant process are also included on TSLA Microfilm No. 1177. The Entry Book has been published by Bruce Pruitt, as well as by Irene Griffey.
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